Class Actions
Class actions provide a way of bringing a case for a group of people injured or damaged as a result of wrongful actions of a company. Such damages can occur as a result of a wide range of actions, including consumer abuses, commercial actions, predatory lending, employment discrimination, environmental damage, asbestos damage including mesothelioma, shareholder abuses, corporate wrongdoing, shortchanging retirement pensions and government fraud.
We have successfully handled major local, regional, and national class actions. Such cases typically require an enormous investment of attorney time and resources, all with no guarantee of recovery. We have added, when necessary, attorneys, paralegals, and secretaries to work full time on such cases — sometimes for years — until their conclusion, based on our conviction that the case will be successful. For example, we recently handled a major national class action representing all women employees of Rent-A-Center and obtained a precedent-setting $47 Million settlement.
This level of commitment to our clients has actually been noted by Federal Judges in extraordinary language. Speaking of the enormous, many year effort of the firm in a race discrimination class action, the U.S. District Court stated:
| "The Court concurs that the record herein demonstrates that Mr. Schlichter and his firm performed with the highest skill ... This Court is unaware of any comparable achievement of public good by a private lawyer in the face of such obstacles and enormous demand of resources and finances." |
| — Mister v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad |
In another successful nationwide class action resulting in a $47 Million settlement, another Federal Judge, speaking of the efforts of the firm stated:
| "I've never seen an effort like this put forth ... it's beyond an extraordinary effort, an amazing, amazing result." |
| — Wilfong v. Rent-a-Center |
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